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[ILUG] Setting up SAMBA

[ILUG] Setting up SAMBA

Proinnsias Breathnach proinnsias at linux.ie
Wed Feb 16 00:49:35 GMT 2005


On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:54:34PM +0000, David Jamison wrote:
> [global]
>    workgroup = home
>    username map /etc/samba/smbusers
>    netbios name = dell
<snip> 
> Going to toshiba (the windows pc - im using the pcs makes as hostnames) 
> in my network places both are machines shown  but if I click on dell it 
> asks me for a password for david and wont accept the password.
> 
> Im guessing my configuration is close to being correct but not close enough!
> 
Yep - close but no cookie .... have you used smbpasswd to add the users
in question / set their respective passwords ? 

If you're not worried - try adding Security=share to the [global]
section ... not recommended though ...

P



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